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Where's my Blackboard course? Tour the New Dashboard

Review enhancements & features in the Ultra Experience

If you’ve been away all summer, you might notice there’s something very different about Blackboard. UMBC’s learning management system was updated in late May to the Ultra Experience featuring a...

Posted: August 22, 2018, 8:07 AM

Rescheduled OS patching for a few systems

Patching of a handful of systems has been rescheduled to occur this evening at 9pm.  This will only affect the systems mentioned below. Monday, August 20, 2018 from 9-11p: All HFS (user)...

Posted: August 20, 2018, 10:02 AM

Conclusion of Voicemail and call processing outage

Earlier today we completed the repairs to the voicemail and call processing equipment. At this point call processing services have been restored and voicemail is again accessible and accepting new...

Posted: August 17, 2018, 2:44 PM

Voicemail Maintenance Window Extended

Today's maintenance window will be extended through tomorrow

The Voicemail and Call Processing maintenance window, originally scheduled for today, will be extended to tomorrow, August 16th beginning at 8am. During today’s work we experienced unforeseen...

Posted: August 15, 2018, 4:09 PM

Voicemail and Call Processing Maintenance Outage Tomorrow

Voicemail and Call Processing services will be down Aug 15

Tomorrow August 15th starting at 8am DoIT will be performing maintenance on the campus voicemail and call processing systems to address failing hardware. We expect this maintenance window to be 8...

Posted: August 14, 2018, 8:22 PM

LDAP-Master and Webadmin downtime on 8/17 at 1pm

On Friday, August 17th starting at 1pm LDAP-Master and Webadmin will be taken down for system maintenance.  During this time account creations and password changes will be unavailable.  Account...

Posted: August 13, 2018, 11:17 AM

Quarterly patching downtimes on 8/16 & 8/17

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix & Windows Infrastructure groups will be conducting quarterly system patching on Thursday, August 16th and Friday, August 17th.  While...

Posted: August 13, 2018, 11:15 AM

Update: TSC Closed until 1PM on Aug. 13

Following additional information regarding today's emergency fire rescue exercise being conducted in the Library, the TSC will be closed until 1PM today, August 13th, while the building is...

Posted: August 13, 2018, 10:52 AM

DoIT Begins Changes to myUMBC

New mobile-friendly, cloud-hosted design

This fall we will begin the process of rolling out a new version of myUMBC. This new version is being built from the ground up using the latest technology, including cloud-based hosting in Amazon,...

Posted: August 8, 2018, 11:44 AM